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Disable
DISABLE, v.t. [dis and able.]
1. To render unable; to deprive of competent natural strength or power. A man is disabled to walk by a broken or paralytic leg, by sickness, etc.
2. To deprive of mental power, as by destroying or weakening the understanding.
3. To deprive of adequate means, instruments or resources. A nation may be disabled to carry on war by want of money. The loss of a ship may disable a man to prosecute commerce, or to pay his debts.
4. To destroy the strength; or to weaken and impair so as to render incapable of action, service or resistance. A fleet is disabled by a storm, or by a battle. A ship is disabled by the loss of her masts or spars.
5. To destroy or impair and weaken the means which render any thing active, efficacious or useful; to destroy or diminish any competent means.
6. To deprive of legal qualifications, or competent power; to incapacitate; to render incapable.
An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood and disables his children to inherit.
disable appears in definitions for these words:
Bar Bastardy Break Brokenwind Corruption Coverture Cripple Crippled Disability Disable Disenable Disqualify Founder Hamstring Hockle Hough Impotent Incapacitate Invalid Lame Maim Maimed Pension President Subdue Unfit Unmaimed
Bar Bastardy Break Brokenwind Corruption Coverture Cripple Crippled Disability Disable Disenable Disqualify Founder Hamstring Hockle Hough Impotent Incapacitate Invalid Lame Maim Maimed Pension President Subdue Unfit Unmaimed
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